Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door.
It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers. They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do.